This is an analysis of Death Of Labour by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
Methought a great wind swept across the earth,
And all the toilers perished. Then I saw…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXaXbXbX
- Stanza lengths: 8,
- Metre: 1001110101 1101010111 1101010101 1101110111 0101010101 1101101101 0101010101 1111010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 8
Repeated words/phrases
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